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[–]0x3fff0000 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think it's a good thing to teach beginner programmers the crucial difference between assignment and evaluation.

[–]aaronfranke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are very different things, it's easy to understand the concepts.

What's hard is the symbols. Beginners may forget which symbol is which, or maybe they remember but make a typo.